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Conservative democrat to listen to the tapes and fine off on white house-produced transcripts, when that didnt happen and the special prosecutor said i wont take that, he had him fired. what we dont know right now is the extent to which the criminal division and the counterintelligence division of the fbi somewhere had their investigation affected at all by the white house. >> do you know if theres been any obstruction -- >> thats the key. if there is obstruction of justice, this is definitely n...

Together now talking about what to do. they have these video hookups they can use. so theyre all in touch now trying to make sure that continuity in the fbi goes ahead because whenever there are these changes in the top, its obviously a critical moment. you dont want anyone to think that the fbi is not keeping its eye on the ball. they want to make sure theres continuity. thats the first thing. the second thing is that the investigation of the trump -- potential connections between the trump cam...

He does report back to russia and does act sort of like a spy. theres always this concern within the fbi counterintelligence division that kislyak is here operating and reporting back to the russians and perhaps giving them information on what the u.s. government is doing. its why there was such concern with his meetings with mike flynn, wolf. >> very, sbrerinteresting, inde. thanks very much, shimon and jeff. well stay in close touch with you. as the shock wears off, the skepticism moves in. ma...

Russians hacking the election, thats not going to stop. thats not going to change. there is a day-to-day person at the fbi in charge of that. its being led by the counterintelligence division at the fbi, and that will go on. so nothing there will change even though james comey will be gone. so well have to wait and see whether he shows up in a couple more hours out in that event in l.a., chris. >> that would be truly astounding. pete williams, thank you for your time tonight. joining me now by t...

And 2020 circumstance for the vision? >> without giving too much detail, we have an enormous part of the fbi in the counterintelligence division that focuses on just that threat in making sure that we do everything we can to understand how the bad guys might come at us and as i talked about earlier to equip the civilian agencies for hardening the infrastructure with all of the information we have about how theyre going to come at us. >> and if you had international security domain increased reso...

Envision? >> without giving too much detail, we have an enormous part of the fbi in our counterintelligence division and the cyber division that focuses on just that threat, in making sure that we do everything we can to understand how the bad guys might come at us. as i talked about earlier, to equip the civilian agencies responsible for hardening our infrastructure, with all the information we have about how theyll come at us. >> if you had in your national security domain increased resources,...

On the defensive." "the bots end products were largely millions of twitter and facebook posts with links to stories on breitbart news and infowars as well as kremlin-backed media outlets like rt and sputnik news." federal investigators examining the bot attacks are exploring when the the far-right news operations took any actions to assist russias operatives. in other words were they in on it. investigators examining the bot attacks are exploring whether the far right news operations to assist r...

Quoting for mcclatchy "operatives for russia appear to have strategically timed bots to blitz social media with links to pro-trump stories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive." "the bots end products were largely millions of twitter and facebook posts with links to stories on breitbart news and infowars as well as kremlin-backed media outlets like rt and sputnik news." federal investigators examining the bot attacks are exploring when the the far-right news operations ...

It. investigators examining the bot attacks are exploring whether the far right news operations to assist russias operatives. the investigation of the bot engineered traffic appears to be in its early stages but its being driven by the fbis counterintelligence division. so if mcclatchy sources are correct, we now know that what appeared to be a mysterious tidal wave that turned social media into brainless anti-clinton mush during the campaign that was not only part of the russian attack, its par...

>> its a technique they use to gather information on people that may be embarrassing or humiliating and using it to coerce cooperation. >> have you known instances where that has been successfully leveraged? >> yes, i believe our counterintelligence division has encountered it a number of times. >> does that include private places such as hotels that are wired for audio and video? >> i dont think i remember enough about the particulars to say, but in theory, sure. >> why did he ask that question...